On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:54:15PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:> On 28 Feb 01 at 13:46, Michal Jaegermann wrote:> > I think that I found what gives me a hell with this box and it> > looks like that this not Linux at all. Once again, this is Athlon> > K6 on Asus AV7 mobo and "Award Advanced ACPI BIOS" version 1005C.> K7 on A7V, I believe...

> > I have more checks to make before I will be fully satisfied but> > this looks like it.> ...> > System Performance Setting [Optimal, Normal]> ...> > Try BIOS 1006. AFAIK 1005D changed some VIA values for 'optimal'.

Is that important here? IDE drives in question were not connected toon-board controller but the Promise one. Results seem to indicatethat this 'optimal' was important here anyway.

> And 1006 contains newer Promise BIOS - but I did not notice any difference:> Windows98 still do not boot if I connect harddisk to /dev/hdh :-(

There is at this moment Windows98 installation on /dev/hde1 and it bootsso far. It got installed and it was booting regardless with these"other" BIOS seetings.